Strand unter

Build sandcastles and protect them from the flood. The grooves of the playing area are filled with shells, all grooves except #1 are covered with the sea cloth. The game comprises two parts, 8 rounds of low tide and 8 rounds of high tide with tidal change in-between. In all rounds of the game there are three steps. 1. Collect shells or sandcastles. 2. Build sandcastles at the beach and 3. move sea cloth and and sandpiper. Step 1 is resolved in order of the pointer position in the player shells, from left to right. In step 2 you build a sandcastle in the current groove, from one of your own castle cards and by discarding the necessary shells. In step 3, the next groove is uncovered and the sandpiper placed there. For the change of tide the sea cloth is repositioned, it now wanders back towards the beach in each round. If you build the 4^th sandcastle, the game ends and all scores for the value of the groove with one of your castles + value of the castles minus unfit shells in your bucket. IF nobody builds four castles, the game ends when the sandpiper reaches groove 1 again.

Collecting and building game for 2-4 players, ages 8+